Photographs of San Marino and Pasadena

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  San Marino

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  Includes 19 Oak Knoll Estate unit and San Marino tract maps. Has insect damage and is brittle. Transferred from facilities March 2024.

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  San Marino

  Manuscripts

  1 item: booklet, "San Marino - from Ranch to City," San Marino Historical Society, 1977.

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  Eaton's Canyon, Pasadena

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  View of people sitting on boulders next to a creek among oak trees in Eaton Canyon, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Pasadena, California.

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  San Marino City Club Dinner

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  Two copies of the speech that was suppose to be given by Otis Chandler at the San Marino City Club on Tuesday, January 17, 1978. There is a note from Freddie Miller on one of the copies stating that Chandler decided to speak "off the cuff" instead. Other items in this folder include a thank you letter from John M. Podlech, a Pasadena Attorney, which he also sends a three page photocopy of a Reader's Digest article; a letter from Lynn P. Reitnouer, President-Elect of the San Marino City Club, providing information about the event; two letters of correspondence between Jack D. Whitehead of Beatrice Food Co. and Otis Chandler in which Whitehead discusses the speech's message, and Chandler responds with a thank you letter; a newspaper clipping from the San Marino Tribune.

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  Photographs of North Pasadena and Sierra Madre area

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  A set of 55 photographs chiefly depicting North Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and the San Gabriel Mountains and foothills, with a few images of Pasadena and Los Angeles, taken chiefly by unidentified photographers, plus later prints from 19 of the photographs. The photographs show residences, including the home of Sierra Madre founder Nathaniel Coburn Carter, which he named Carterhia, one view encompassing a lake in the foreground and the San Gabriel Valley beyond; one view depicting Nathaniel Carter in the foreground and Carter's wife, Annetta M. Carter, standing on the balcony next to wisteria vines; and several views of the house, some with people on burros in front (Box 1, Items 5-6, 24-27). Other homes depicted include the residence of Levi Richardson, also in Sierra Madre (Box 1, Item 10); views of an unidentified dwelling in the foothills, with a large gathering of men, women, and children in front, one playing a guitar and one sitting in a wheelbarrow, and American flags planted on the hillside (Items Box 1, Items 1-4); and homes draped by wisteria and ivy. Photographs also show mountain and forest scenery; agricultural images including grape vines, fruit trees, and a banana grove; and plants including yucca, roses, and cacti, some with people posing by them. Some photographs are portraits of people, including women posing indoors; people on a trail, among trees or sitting on rocks in the woods, or on railroad tracks; groups of men and women with burros; people on front porches and stairs outside of residences; and an infant on a bed. The collection also includes a few images taken by commercial photographers, including views of an unidentified building taken by [William Mollock?] Godfrey (Box 1, Items 21-23); a man seated on the front steps of a house surrounded by roses and foliage, taken by E. A. Bonine (Box 2, Item 51); a man standing in a cactus garden, taken by William Henry Hill (Box 2, Item 53); a yucca plant, taken by E. S. Frost and Son (Box 2, Item 54); and Los Angeles, with a view Southwest from the courthouse, taken by Park and Company (Box 2, Item 55).

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  W.H. Fletcher photograph collection

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  Collection of 53 glass plate negatives and corresponding copy prints by photographer W.H. Fletcher of views in Southern California during a period of industrial expansion and population growth primarily in the late 1800s. The images chiefly depict downtown Los Angeles, San Pedro and Terminal Island, and Long Beach. The views of Los Angeles include commercial streets and storefronts, construction sites including the building for Hamburgers Department Store (circa 1907), Main Street and the Church of Our Lady, and views of the town from 5th and Beaudry. The views of San Pedro and Terminal Island include the town of San Pedro, the harbor and docks with moored ships, and the hotel and bathhouse on Terminal Island. The views of Long Beach include the pier and beach, commercial streets and storefronts and residences. In addition there is a view of a miner washing gold in San Gabriel Canyon (Item 48); rural Duarte (Item 49); a street in Pomona (Item 50); a street in Riverside (Item 51); a view of the Point Fermin lighthouse (Item 52); and a view of oak trees (Item 53).

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